This month in South Australia’s history

Pageant of Empire

A two-day event at Adelaide Oval which included tableaux by 13,300 schoolchildren on 27-28 November.

The rotunda is erected

The rotunda was made at Macfarlane’s Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and shipped from London. It is constructed of decorative wrought iron with a zinc roof and on arrival it was painted bronze, grey and blue. The rotunda officially opened on 28 November 1882.

Built

Archie Badenoch is constructed at the General Motors Holden plant at Birkenhead in Port Adelaide and enters Royal Australian Navy service